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Title Author Year
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23) William Shakespeare 1904
the mother Gwendolyn Brooks 1945
A Decade Amy Lowell 1921
Protest Ella Wheeler Wilcox 2017
The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Grass Carl Sandburg 1918
Gitanjali 45 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Eating Together Li-Young Lee 1986
The Marshes of Glynn Sidney Lanier 1878
A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball Christopher Merrill 2001
To a Young Poet Zaina Alsous 2025
The Iliad, Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles] Homer 1715
The Portrait Stanley Kunitz 1991
Tell Me a Story Robert Penn Warren 1985
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Robert Browning 1842
the poem is a dream telling you its time Marwa Helal 2022
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death W. B. Yeats 1919
When The World Falls in Around You or, Vows to My Palestinian Wife on Our Wedding Day Lehua M. Taitano 2024
The Testing-Tree Stanley Kunitz 1971
For the Graduation [Bolinas, 1973] Robert Creeley 2016

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